AD9850 PIC16F Interface

AD9850 8-Bit Parallel Load DataControl Main

A simple wave generator should be a part of every electronics enthusiast toolset. Basic Sine/Square output in reasonable frequency range will be sufficient for general use. Luckily such generators are available in form of a very popular AD9850 module.  Search the web for AD9850 designs/code and  you’ll find a lot of material available on how to build … Read more

10Bit 7-Segment Digital Voltmeter 0-24V

10 Bit 7-Segment Digital Voltmeter Featured Image

This is an upgrade to recently published Simple Digital Voltmeter.Few improvements were done to hardware and software.DVM operating range  was slightly increased up to 24 V Max, however the most significant change is that the code now uses full 10 bit of ADC resolution to calculate the voltage being measured allowing 3 Digit result  for 0-9.99 range  and 4 … Read more

Power Supply 2.5 – 12 V

Digital Power Supply Prototype Board

  Power Supply is probably the most common electronics project you can build.This is a basic design for digital power supply. It was built around 3 main components. Digital potentiometer – MCP4251-502E/P, Low  Dropout Voltage Regulator – MIC29152 and PIC16F877A.The idea behind it is simple. Take a standard LDO design – 2 resistors, first resistor … Read more

Simple Digital Voltmeter

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Simple digital voltmeter can be built by using PIC microcontroller and a few discrete components. PIC16F877A 10 bit ADC module was used for this purpose, we’ll work only with 8 upper bits to translate input voltage to digital form and send it to LED display. Hardware of this design is very similar to digital clock … Read more

PIC16F877A Digital Clock

This is PIC16F877A microcontroller based digital clock with 7-Segment display. For this project LTC3710HR was used, however the schematic can be easily adjusted to incorporate larger displays.LTC3710HR is 0.3 inch quadruple digit multiplex common cathode display.Main consideration for choosing the display should be current required as PIC outputs can provide about 25mA for each segment. If … Read more